Originally Posted by WiredGuy

Start by getting a players card so they can monitor your gambling.

Make sure you change your cash into chips on the table and do large quantities. Even if you're only playing $25/hand, check change at least $1000.

When you're being rated, it helps if you're playing big hands ($100+).

After a few hours of doing this, you should be ready for some comps. You need to be somewhat aggressive in getting them, you can't hope they'll give stuff to you. Tell them you want to come back but need to go get dinner, you can expect them to comp your dinner.

Keep growing from there until you start getting free nights, etc...

Remember comps are done on a revenue per hour to the casino basis. If the house advantage is 0.5% (typical blackjack) and you're betting $100/hand and doing say 20 hands per hour, then the casino is making $10/hr off you. You can expect your comps to be a couple bucks per hour based on this.

Good luck.
WG